Resource discovery in Mobile Cloud Computing: A clustering based approach

Mobile Cloud Computing is an emerging technology in today´s digital era which enables mobile users to utilize the Cloud services. It enjoys the advantage of both Mobile and Cloud Computing but at the same time, it leaves out some of the pitfalls of both these computing technologies. In traditional Cloud computing, only the resources provided by the stationary Cloud were borrowed but the cooperation based architecture of Mobile Cloud Computing opens the door to utilize resources of mobile devices of local network itself. Since there might be many mobile devices available as service providers, resource discovery is an important issue in order to actualize this. This work addresses the issue of resource discovery in mobile cloud by clustering the mobile devices. Since battery power is most crucial for mobile devices, designed method is energy efficient. Moreover, proposed method also considers delay while performing resource discovery.